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Thirty five employees of the Rwanda Private Sector Federation (PSF) yesterday lost their jobs in a move the body has attributed to financial constraints.
Getting energy to every home and satisfying industrial needs remain capital to the New Deal regime.
Mezam Division in the North West Region has executed 98 Public Investment Budget projects out of 114 projects granted the Division.
Some twenty two (22) staff members who have distinguished themselves in the taxation service in the North West Region have been rewarded. The 22 who were congratulated for professional competence, assiduity respect for hierarchy and discipline received certificates from the hands of the Regional Chief of Taxes for the North West Gana Joseph.
Senior officials of a Chinese firm, SINOSTEEL, which is carrying out the project, visited the mining sites on Wednesday.
After the Business Plan Competition (BPC) was postponed twice due to financial and procurement constraints it has been confirmed that the event will finally take off on 9th this month.
Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has honoured top performing business in international trade that uses the Port of Mombasa as the point of entry and exit for their merchandise.
In a bid to support savings culture in the country, Fina Bank has launched a new savings account "Fina Saver" that will encourage customers with such accounts to earn impressive interest rates.
The call was made yesterday by Manzi Nkubito Bakuramutsa, an ICT official in the Office of the President while opening a one-day meeting of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) cluster workgroup at Telecom House.
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In our editorial last week we mentioned unfair trade practices impacting local manufacturers and businesses. We mentioned among other things the rampant under-invoicing of goods from neighboring countries which end up being priced well below locally manufactured products. We also mentioned dumping and smuggling as other big problems.
The government and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have signed a US$ 23 million grant that will finance Bugesera district irrigation scheme under the Bugesera Natural Region Rural Infrastructure Support Project.
Bank of Kigali (BK) is doing its bit to promote saving by offering three savings schemes.
In a move to ensure that Rwandan producers attain better prices at international trade, a group of producers in collaboration with Rwanda Development Board have launched the Fair Trade movement / Rwanda chapter with the aim of sensitizing the producers on the benefits accrued from being Fair Trade certified.
For the first time, Rwanda has joined the celebration of World Savings Day. With the rate of saving still low, it was an occasion to sensitize people on the benefits of putting their money in the bank.
Recurrent power failures, leakages and spilling fountains are some of the weakness that have been noticed on the artistic jewel.
Blue cashXpress, yet another innovative business arm of Blue Financial Services (BFS), has been launched recently in Kigali, Rwanda. The pioneering product offers cash on the spot and was conceptualised and developed to meet the ever-changing needs of clients.
The Central Bank Governor, François Kanimba, has challenged bankers to think out of the box and be innovative when it comes to offering products and services to clients.
The Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Stanislas Kamanzi, yesterday called upon Rwandans to utilize available resources such as bamboo to make products that will increase the country's export base.
Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), the national body charged with tax and non-tax revenue collection, managed to surpass its target for the 1st Quarter under the East African Community fiscal year, collecting Rwf 86.2bn between July and September 2009.
MTN Rwanda airtime distributors and vendors have since last week hiked airtime voucher cards citing increment in prices at which they purchase the cards from the company.
Civil society organisations have called on government to include civil society organisations when deciding on the national priorities in the national budget.
Works on the country's biggest hydro-electric power plant along River Nyabarongo are making good progress, according to the Minister of State for Energy, Eng. Albert Butare.
The East African Community (EAC) Deputy Secretary General of in charge of Political Federation Beatrice Kiraso has called on politicians to embrace the idea of having foreign policies harmonized among EAC partner states.
An unknown number of employees of the Rwanda Private Sector Federation (PSF) risk losing their jobs or going on an unpaid leave as the body struggles to meet its budget partly attributable to the on-going global crisis.
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